1 Protection of your personal data
1.1 What is personal data?
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to one or more factors specific to his or her physical identity.
1.2 Information you give us
When you use our services, we collect certain information which is essential for us to be able to respond to your request, in particular about the functions you use, the way in which you use them and the peripherals through which you access our services.
If you contact us via our contact form or otherwise, we collect the information you give us as part of that interaction.
2 Cookies and other similar technologies
2.1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your hard drive by the website visited, enabling it to record and store certain information about your computer and also about you.
They are essential to the operation of the Internet as they enable two computers to communicate properly. The information recovered is also used to run the applications you use on the website.
2.2 How do cookies affect you?
Some cookies also capture personal data about you that they transmit to third-party companies. They may collect personal information that you have not voluntarily shared on the internet, such as your browsing history, where you click on the site, a session identifier, etc. Put end to end, the information gathered allows us to build up a picture of your personal life that can then be sold to advertisers. This is why we need to ask your permission to install certain cookies on your computer.
2.3 Which cookies require my express consent?
Not all cookies require separate express consent. So-called "operating" cookies, which enable you to take advantage of the features specific to this site and which use your personal data solely for this purpose, are presumed to have your consent (CNIL deliberation no. 2013-378 of 5 December 2013). Those who use your data for other purposes, in particular those belonging to service providers, require your express consent, which is valid for 13 months.
2.4 What are cookies used for on this site?
We use cookies on this site to:
⎯ enable the site to function properly,
⎯ contribute to the security of the service requested by the user,
⎯ enable or facilitate communication by electronic means,
⎯ provide you with the service requested by the user,
⎯ measure the site's audience,
⎯ advertise,
⎯ adapt the content of the site to your browsing habits.
2.5 Which cookies on this site require your consent?
Audience measurement cookies
We use Google Analytics cookies to produce anonymous statistics limited to our site and services. This does not allow us to identify you directly. This cookie is published by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States of America. It is then possible for Google to cross-reference your data collected here with data from other sites or sources in order to establish a profile and carry out automatic profiling. Google Analytics has an average lifespan of two years and may transfer the data collected to its servers located in the United States of America in order to re-use it for commercial purposes for other Google services, subsidiaries and commercial partners. Under Irish law, you may exercise your rights directly with the dedicated service or by writing to the following address GOOGLE Ireland Ltd, Google Data Privacy Officer, Gordon House Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Tracking cookies
Google Adsense cookies use data that enables us to offer you personalised advertising on this site based on personal data that you have communicated to third-party websites. for the production of anonymous statistics limited to our site and our services. This does not allow us to identify you directly. This cookie is edited by the company Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States of America. It is then possible for Google to cross-reference your data collected here with data from other sites or sources in order to establish a profile and carry out automatic profiling. Google Analytics has an average lifespan of two years and may transfer the data collected to its servers located in the United States of America in order to re-use it for commercial purposes for other Google services, subsidiaries and commercial partners. Under Irish law, you may exercise your rights directly with the dedicated service or by writing to the following address GOOGLE Ireland Ltd, Google Data Privacy Officer, Gordon House Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland.
2.6. How do I refuse cookies?
Some cookies are essential for the site to function properly. If you set your browser to refuse all the cookies required for the site to function properly, certain functions, pages and areas of the site will not be accessible. You can accept or refuse the cookies that are accessory to the proper operation of the site, in accordance with article 32-II of the French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978.
3 How we use personal data
3.1 Principal purposes
The main purposes for which we use your data are :
- To respond to your request via our contact forms.
- Legitimately to improve and develop our services.
- Legitimately to contribute to the security of our services and prevent fraudulent, illegal or unauthorised activity.
- To meet our legal, social and fiscal obligations.
When we collect data that is not justified by our legal or contractual obligations or our legitimate interest, in order to respond to your request, we will ask you for your consent and specify the purpose of this consent.
3.2 Confidentiality and conditions for sharing your data
We consider that the data you entrust to us is confidential. However, in order to be able to provide you with these messages, we must share the data you entrust to us with our subcontractors for hosting and securing our site. These partners are subject to an obligation of confidentiality and may only use your data to carry out their mission. When we are legally obliged to do so or when we wish to assert our rights, we may be required to disclose some of your personal data.
3.3 Transfer of data outside the European Union
Our website is located in France. However, we use subcontractors located within the European Union and in the United States of America.
4. How long do you keep your data?
We only keep your personal data for as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes, to meet our legal obligations (in particular in relation to invoicing) and to the extent permitted by current legislation.
5. Contact form
The contact form is a processing of personal data under the responsibility of FRANCE RECHERCHE DEVELOPPEMENT. It allows you to interact with us on any request you may initiate. The fields marked "optional" are optional, the others must be filled in so that we can respond to your request.
The recipients of this data are our communications department and our subcontractors as part of their webmaster and hosting services. The contact form enables our communications department to respond to your request or to transfer it to the appropriate department.
The data comes from the registration by the person wishing to interact with FRANCE RECHERCHE DEVELOPPEMENT in the dedicated fields in the form. Only personal data provided voluntarily and expressly by you is processed and is subject to consent in accordance with article 6.1 a of the RGPD. The data collected is as follows: name or company name, e-mail address, subject and content of the message. This data is mandatory in order to process your request and we assure you that no automated decision is taken on the basis of this data collection.
The recipients of this data are the Communications Department, the department concerned by the request and its subcontractors as part of their webmastering and website hosting duties. Data is not transferred outside the European Union.
We keep the mandatory data until the request has been processed.
How to exercise your rights, see article 6 of this policy.
6. Your rights regarding your personal data
6.1 What are your rights?
In the context of your interactions with us via this site, you have the right to access, query and rectify your data so that we can, if necessary, rectify, complete, update, block or delete any personal data concerning you that is inaccurate, incomplete, equivocal, out of date or whose collection, use, communication or storage is unlawful.
You also have the right to object to the processing of your data on legitimate grounds. This means that if you object, we will not be able to respond to your request.
6.2 How can you assert your rights and contact us?
If you have a request concerning the protection of your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at contact@frdp.fr, specifying "PRIVACY" in the subject line, or by post at :
FRANCE RECHERCHE DEVELOPPEMENT, 329 CHE DES NEUF PEYRES 84000 AVIGNON
For your protection and the protection of all our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can respond to your request.
On the other hand, we may not be able to respond positively to certain requests in which a user objects to the processing of their personal data, in particular where such requests would no longer allow us to provide our services.
You may also lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in your country of residence, in particular with the CNIL for French residents.